Zoom H1essential Portable Recorder
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- 1-Year Warranty — Included on every order
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Stop wrestling with gain settings. The Zoom H1essential puts professional-grade audio within reach of every creator, using 32-bit float recording to automatically handle the dynamic range that trips up traditional recorders. Whether you're tracking a live band, gathering field sound for a film, or recording a podcast interview between meetings, one button is all it takes.
Built for Real-World Recording
The onboard X/Y microphone array handles sound pressure levels up to 120 dB SPL, meaning everything from intimate acoustic sessions to roaring engines gets captured with clarity and detail. Mono Mode keeps on-the-go interviews sounding tight and focused, while features like overdubbing, pre-record, auto-record, and playback speed adjustment give you a full creative toolkit inside a pocket-sized body.
Versatile, Accessible, Ready Anywhere
Connect via USB-C to use the H1essential as a direct microphone with PC, Mac, iOS, or Android — no extra interface needed. A vivid OLED display and soft-touch controls make navigation effortless, and audible menu descriptions with multilingual support ensure the experience is accessible to all creators. Mount it to a tripod, slot in an SDXC card up to 1TB for marathon sessions, and run the whole unit for up to 10 hours on just two AAA batteries. The H1essential is small in size and serious in performance.
- Max Bit Depth/Sample Rate
- 32-bit float/96kHz
- Built-in Mics
- 90° X/Y stereo condenser
- Inputs
- 1x 3.5mm stereo mic/line in
- Storage
- microSD/microSDXC, up to 1TB
- Battery
- 2x AAA, ~10 hours (alkaline)
- Recording Formats
- WAV, BWF, iXML
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